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The Final Challenge at Sparkle and Glitter with Rick St. Dennis, meets Desert Island Crafters Challenge!!

It's the 1st of March today, so here's hoping Spring is well and truly in the air, and with Spring, comes changes and new beginnings. Today see's the last challenge over at Sparkle and Glitter with Rick St. Dennis, the blog is still going to be running, and we'll be showcasing lots more of Rick's awesome images, along with tutorials and much much more! You'll also see Rick's image around blogland lots more too, as the EDT guest at some of bloglands best challenge blogs, so you'll have loads more opportunities to play along with us, and win Rick's images.

Today's Desert Island Crafts Challenge is sponsored by non other than Rick St. Dennis, the multi talented man who can draw anything from Alice in Wonderland to the Grim Reaper, and some truly awesome stuff in between. Check out his Etsy Store; you'll find lots of images old and new to tempt you, you really will be spoilt for choice.

I used the beautiful Lady of the Roses image by Rick St. Dennis for my card. She's coloured with a mix of Letraset Tria and Promarkers, with the addition of a little metallic silver pen.

I wanted to make the image the focal point of my card, so kept the embellishments to a minimum, adding some organza ribbon and a purple rose to coordinate with the image. My background is a piece of variegated aqua card stock, which echo's the background of my image, and helps showcase this beautiful lady.

To embellish my canvas I used some brand new MDF Stars from Samantha K Gifts, which are available from Hochanda.com from today, but you'll have to be quick, as the last collection sold out really quick. You can see Sam on Hochanda TV today at 8am and 3pm featuring these Stars and lots more gorgeous new shapes.

I painted the Stars with pale blue acrylic paint, iridescent medium and then added a little alchemy wax in turquoise and silver. Look at that shine. So beautiful.#

The background is a piece of canvas I did some Gelli Printing on the other day. I cut out a large circle from one of my plain gel prints and added half to the left side of the canvas and another piece to the bottom right corner. I applied it with matte medium, and got impatient so dried it with my heat gun, which made it bubble. Not a happy mess! So I ripped off the bubble sections and used a sanding block to even out the surface a little. Luckily that looked better, so I added my …